 With fingers weary and worn. With eyelids heavy and red, A woman sat, in unwomanly rags, Plying her needle and thread — Stitch! stitch! stitch! In poverty, hunger, and dirt, And still with a voice of dolorous pitch, Would that its tone could reach the...  The New Century First [-- ] Reader - Pāgina 1501899Visualitzaciķ completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - 1832 - 1022 pāgines
...A respite however brief I No blessed leisure for love or hope, But only time for grief ! A 1 ittle weeping would ease my heart ; But in their briny bed...unwomanly rags, Plying her needle and thread — Stitch! stitch! stitch! In poverty, hunger, and dirt; And still, with a voice of dolorous pitch — Would that... | |
 | George Pope Morris, Nathaniel Parker Willis - 1843 - 530 pāgines
...hour To feel as I used to feel, Before I knew the woes of want. And the walk that costs a meal ! " Oh ! but for one short hour ! A respite however brief...tears must stop, for every drop Hinders needle and tbread ! With fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and red, A woman sat, in unwomanly rags, Plying... | |
 | 1844 - 858 pāgines
...leisure for Love or Поре, liut only time for fīrief ! A little weeping would case my heart ; liut in their briny bed My tears must stop, for every drop...With eyelids heavy and red, A woman sat in unwomanly nure, Plying her needle and thread — Stitch— stitch— stitch I In poverty, hunger, and dirt, And... | |
 | Johann Georg Kohl - 1844 - 316 pāgines
...blessed leisure for Love or Hope, Bnt only time for Grief! A little weeping would ease my heart, Bat in their briny bed My tears must stop, for every drop...fingers weary and •worn, With eyelids heavy and red, ale wollten fie mir geigen il; ru fonnigen gebern unb mid) mit bem grueling foppen. *) O nur einmal... | |
 | Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna - 1844 - 622 pāgines
...hour To feel as I used to feel,' Before I knew the woes of want And the walk that costs a meal ! " Ob but for one short hour ! A respite however brief! No blessed leisure for Love or Hope, Bat only time for Grief 1 A little weeping would ease my heart, Bat in their briny bed My tears must... | |
 | 1844 - 878 pāgines
...short hour To feel ax 1 used to feel, Before I knew the woes of want, And the walk that costs a meal ! Oh but for one short hour ! A respite however brief ! No blessed leisure for Love or TTope, But only time for Grief ! A little weeping would ease my heart ; But in their briny bed My tears... | |
 | Johann Georg Kohl - 1844 - 316 pāgines
...To feel as I used to feel, Before I knew the woes of want And the walk that costs a meal ! *) 0 hot for one short hour! A respite however brief! No blessed leisure for Love or Hope, Bat only time for Grief! A little weeping wonld ease my heart, But in their briny bed My tears must... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1845 - 558 pāgines
...hour To feel as I used to feel, Before I knew the woes of want, And the walk that costs a meal ! " Oh ! but for one short hour ! A respite, however brief...unwomanly rags, Plying her needle and thread , Stitch — stitch — stitch ! In poverty, hunger, and dirt ; And still with a voice of dolorous pitch —... | |
 | Thomas Hood - 1845 - 434 pāgines
...And yet, oh yet, that many a Dame Would dream the Lady's Dream ! PART 11. 15 THE SONG OF THE SHIET. WITH fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and...woman sat, in unwomanly rags, Plying her needle and threadStitch ! stitch ! stitch ! In poverty, hunger, and dirt And still with a voice of dolorous pitch,... | |
 | Thomas Hood - 1845 - 442 pāgines
...And yet, oh yet, that many a Dame Would dream the Lady's Dream ! PART 11. 15 THE SONG OF THE SHIRT, WITH fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and...woman sat, in unwomanly rags, Plying her needle and threadStitch ! stitch ! stitch ! In poverty, hunger, and dirt And still with a voice of dolorous pitch,... | |
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